REPUBLICAN VP NOMINEE PAUL RYAN ON TRANSPORTATION

posted by gloria ohland | 498mp
August 14, 2012

On the Transport Politic blog Yonah Freemark notes the Mitt Romney's choice of Paul Ryan shows the GOP is taking a clear stand on where it wants to take government, and the effects on national transportation policy "could be tremendous."

Would Ryan decrease the role of the federal government in funding infrastructure projects that can't be sponsored through user fees? Would federal environmental regulations be dismantled? Would public services such as transit be privatized?

Freemark notes that Ryan voted against every piece of transportation legislation proposed by Democrats with exception of a bill subsidizing the auto industry. . . .